§         CONGRESS VENUE

Swissôtel The Bosphorus
Bayildim Cad. No : 2 Maçka
Besiktas 34357
Istanbul -Turkey
Tel: +90 212 326 1100
Fax: +90 212 326 1122
Website: www.swissotel.com/istanbul


§         ACCESS FOR PEOPLE WITH RESTRICTED MOBILITY
As the access to some venues might not be easy for people with restricted mobility, please kindly indicate in the appropriate section of the registration form if you need some particular attention.


§         SHUTTLES/ACCESS
A shuttle service will be set up for transfers between the Swissôtel The Bosphorus hotel and other congress hotels.
The organisers are planning to provide a transfer service between the Swissôtel The Bosphorus and the Ciragan Kempiski and Hilton hotels in the mornings, before and after the lunch break and in the evenings.

N.B: There will be no shuttle service from the Hilton Park and Taslik hotels, located within walking distance from the Swissôtel The Bosphorus.

For all evening programmes, transfers to and from your hotel will be provided. The shuttle timetable will be available in the congress final programme distributed onsite, at the registration desk and posted up in the congress hotels.


§         ASSISTANCE DURING THE CONGRESS
For any further information, representatives of the UIA and DESTINATION PLUS will be at your disposal at the Swissôtel The Bosphorus hotel to answer all your questions.


§         ACCOMPANYING PERSONS
Members of the legal profession cannot be registered as accompanying persons for the congress. Accompanying persons are not authorised to attend the scientific sessions.
To be able to participate in the social activities, accompanying persons need to have registered and paid the corresponding registration fees. They will be given a special badge.


§         BADGE
The badge (congress participant or accompanying person) will have a bar code on which your activities will be recorded and which can be used as a pass. Please keep it with you at all times for access to sessions as well as lunches and other social activities.

To check your identity, the bar code on your badge will be scanned at the entrance of rooms, both for meetings and for all social activities.

A €10 fee will be applied to the participants in case the UIA has to print a lost badge.


§         FIRST-TIME PARTICIPANTS AT A UIA CONGRESS
In order to enable regulat participants of the UIA annual congresses as well as the association’s officiers to offer a specially warm welcome to those (UIA members or non-members) attending a UIA congress for the first time, their badge will indicate that they are first-time participants.


§         LUNCHES
Lunches have been organised to give you ample time to meet friends and colleagues. They will be served at the Swissôtel The Bosphorus hotel itself. Access will be granted on presentation of your badge and based on the selection you have made on your registration form.

Lunches shall be served without any alcoholic beverages. However, you will be able to purchase alcoholic beverages at an additional charge. You may either pay for them directly or add the costs to your room charges if you are staying at the hotel Swissôtel The Bosphorus.


§         EXHIBITION AREA
An exhibition will be held for the entire duration of the congress, at the hotel Swissôtel The Bosphorus.


§         LIST OF CONGRESS PARTICIPANTS
You can consult the list of participants along with their contact details on the UIA Website, Istanbul congress section, under “My UIA congress”, at any time. However, you need to have registered for the congress first.


§         CONGRESS REPORTS
All congress participants who have paid their registration fees will receive a copy of the CD-ROM containing the reports received in electronic format by the UIA latest by August 31, 2010.
Reports received after this date but before the congress will be available on the UIA Website, www.uianet.org, in the section “My UIA congress”, for all registered participants who have paid their registration fees.

During the closing ceremony, the Monique Raynaud-Contamine Award will be conferred on the best reports.


§         MONIQUE RAYNAUD-CONTAMINE AWARD
In 1999, the Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA) established the Monique Raynaud-Contamine Award in memory of and as a tribute to Mrs Monique Raynaud-Contamine, a former UIA Director of Legal Publications, and former President of the Banking Law Commission. Monique Raynaud-Contamine was a vitally important UIA member for several years.
The Monique Raynaud-Contamine Award was established in homage to her work and her personality and is granted to the authors of the two best legal reports drafted for the UIA annual congresses. One of the two awards will be conferred on a young lawyer. In addition, the two winners will receive a prize awarded by the legal publishers, Bruylant (Brussels).


§         ACCREDITATION
Within the framework of continuing legal education, the UIA has obtained the official accreditation for the following countries:
> France: French Bar Council (Conseil National des Barreaux – CNB)
21 hours of training have been validated for congress participants.

> Belgium: French-speaking and German-speaking Law Society (Ordre des Barreaux francophones et germanophone – O.B.F.G.) and the Flemish Law Society – O.V.B.,
18 trainings points have been granted for congress participants.

Each participant shall receive a certificate of participation,, distributed onsite at the end of the congress, upon request.

The UIA is also pursuing this approach with organisations in other countries. Please contact it for more detailed information.


§         SIMULTANEOUS TRANSLATION

Upon your arrival at the congress, please consult the final programme to verify whether simultaneous interpretation is being provided in other languages or for other meetings.

The UIA would also like to thank the law firm of Mr. Majed M. GAROUB for contributing to the financing of the simultaneous translation in Arabic for some of the sessions.